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- Thu May 02, 2024 3:22 pm
- Forum: 2024
- Topic: Dune, Part 2
- Replies: 8
- Views: 376
Re: Dune, Part 2
I've been meaning to write about this for several weeks, but somehow never got around to it. As someone who was pretty enthusiastic about the initial film, I have to admit to being a bit let down by this (especially with all the "better than the first" hype I'd heard). It's not that Villen...
- Thu May 02, 2024 2:39 pm
- Forum: The Cam Dagg Memorial Theatre and Literature Forum
- Topic: The 2024 Tony Awards
- Replies: 12
- Views: 214
Re: The 2024 Tony Awards
I don't know I've ever felt as ignorant on the musical side. Several of the nominees I'd barely heard of prior to the nominations run-up. None of them got exactly bad reviews, but few were greeted with major enthusiasm (Illinoise, chiefly a dance show, I'm told, probably had the strongest reviews). ...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 2:49 pm
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: WGA Nominations
- Replies: 3
- Views: 941
Re: WGA Nominations
The strike.Reza wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 12:25 amWonder what was the rational for coming up with their winners so late in life.Big Magilla wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 9:10 pm And the winners are...
Original: The Holdovers
Adapted: American Fiction
Documentary: The Pigeon Tunnel
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 12:54 am
- Forum: 2024
- Topic: Challengers reviews
- Replies: 6
- Views: 407
Challengers reviews
Okay, given the involvement of Luca Guadagnino, I should have had my eye on this a bit more. But it's a tennis movie, and I never anticipated reviews this good. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/challengers-review-zendaya-josh-oconnor-mike-faist-luca-guadagnino-1235870986/ https...
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 11:44 am
- Forum: The Damien Bona Memorial Oscar History Thread
- Topic: Best Supporting Actor 1961
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2561
Re: Best Supporting Actor 1961
Steiger is so natural (all right: un-hammy) he's hardly recognizable as the same actor.
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 9:56 pm
- Forum: 97th Academy Awards
- Topic: 2024 Governors Awards
- Replies: 29
- Views: 1869
Re: 2024 Governors Awards
Genuine question: when you compare the length of time a host like Bob Hope takes vs Jimmy Kimmel, is it genuinely that much different? Probably not, but the whole production number that goes along with the host's opening monologue before the first award is handed out takes more time than it did in ...
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 4:17 pm
- Forum: Broadcast Media
- Topic: R.I.P. Joe Flaherty
- Replies: 4
- Views: 350
Re: R.I.P. Joe Flaherty
SCTV is a big blind spot for me. The sense I got is that it was the most respected and creative late night comedy show in contrast to the more boisterous SNL of the late 70's and the downfall early 80's. On the possibility you're interested, an "it's a bit more complicated than that" shor...
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 11:59 am
- Forum: Broadcast Media
- Topic: R.I.P. Joe Flaherty
- Replies: 4
- Views: 350
R.I.P. Joe Flaherty
Some are you aren't old enough to have watched SCTV in its heyday, and only know the cast members (Martin Short, John Candy, Catherine O'Hara, Eugene Levy etc.) who went on to more prominent careers. But the show itself was must-see late-night for those of us of a certain age. Joe Flaherty -- the sl...
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 8:25 pm
- Forum: The People
- Topic: R.I.P. Barbara Rush
- Replies: 4
- Views: 377
Re: R.I.P. Barbara Rush
I happened to be in my early awareness of movies during the brief period Barbara Rush was considered a star -- she'd co-starred in The Young Philadelphians, and was worthy of being Frank Sinatra's love interest in Come Blow Your Horn (which I saw at Radio City Music Hall). Her time in the limelight ...
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 11:38 pm
- Forum: 97th Academy Awards
- Topic: 2024 Governors Awards
- Replies: 29
- Views: 1869
Re: 2024 Governors Awards
I’m not keen on honoring either Ford or Cruise. They’re both been enormously successful (which is perhaps reward enough), but they’re both fairly limited as actors. Ford is good at playing grumpy and Cruise is sometimes good at playing earnest, when he’s not overdoing it pouring on the smiley charm...
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 3:33 pm
- Forum: 2024
- Topic: Cannes 2024
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1480
Re: Cannes 2024
I don't have time for extensive comment, but I thank dws for this fully-researched, greatly informative post.
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 3:25 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: R.I.P. Joseph Lieberman
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1099
Re: R.I.P. Joseph Lieberman
I know I'm several days late on this, but in case Sabin still wants an answer to his question re: Gore choosing a different VP... Richard Nixon had polling that showed he ran stronger solo than with any possible running mate, since any choice would antagonize someone. The trick became to choose the ...
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 2:38 pm
- Forum: The People
- Topic: R.I.P. Louis Gossett, Jr.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 356
Re: R.I.P. Louis Gossett, Jr.
I've seen him a bit more than some of you -- in addition to the obvious Raisin in the Sun/Officer and a Gentleman/Roots, I saw him in The Landlord, Skin Game (a quite funny pairing with James Garner), Travels with My Aunt, The Laughing Policeman...and, much later in life, Diggstown. But the majority...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 7:54 pm
- Forum: The People
- Topic: R.I.P. M. Emmet Walsh
- Replies: 3
- Views: 614
Re: R.I.P. M. Emmet Walsh
The definitional working actor. Straight Time was the first time I really registered his presence. i'd probably seen him a dozen or more times prior, without quite registering him. But once I zoned in on him, I saw he always made his films better. IMDB shows he kept working steadily, right up to the...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 6:38 pm
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: I'm always here for the Trivia
- Replies: 43
- Views: 2656
Re: I'm always here for the Trivia
I would put Yuh-jung Youn alongside Robert DeNiro or Benicio Del Toro, in that it is a foreign language performance in an American film. Except they're both foreign-language performances/elements within an otherwise English-speaking film. Unless my memory of Minari is warped -- and, with age/pandem...